[gPXE] Marvell 88E8055 crash

[Gilles Martin]

Le jeudi 29 juillet 2010 à 10:54 +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi a écrit :
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Gilles Martin <gilles.martin at psi.ch> wrote:
> > Le mercredi 28 juillet 2010 à 16:27 +0200, Piotr Jaroszyński a écrit :
> >> On 28 July 2010 16:18, Gilles Martin <gilles.martin at psi.ch> wrote:
> >> > Hi again,
> >> >
> >> > Sorry, it's my day of testing for latest GPXE 1.0.1 version so I spam
> >> > the list a lot! ;)
> >> >
> >> > I made another test on another Fujitsu Siemens Laptop with the chipset
> >> > Marvell 88E8055 and just after the "ifopen net0" I have the prompt back
> >> > and it crashes (Keyboad is blocked, no message). If I am fast enough, I
> >> > can type 2 or 3 letters on the new prompt before it's blocked.
> 
> This is the sky2 hang:
> http://support.etherboot.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=63
> http://www.mail-archive.com/gpxe@etherboot.org/msg00507.html
> 
> The patch isn't 100% happy yet, that's why it is not merged.  No one
> has had the time to complete the patch and test it.
> 
> If you are willing to do some testing it may be possible to finish
> this patch and get it merged now.


Yes, I can do some testing with this patch. Is there a procedure to
follow to validate this patch ? I am not a developper so I won't be able
to debug properly or complete the patch sadly. What I can do, is run
some tests and report what problems I enconter if there are some.

Gilles


> Stefan
> 
> >> > It tried also to build GPXE with DEBUG=sky2 but no message was
> >> > displayed...
> >>
> >> Does it work properly with any other gPXE version that you have tested?
> >>
> >
> > No, it's exactly the same behavior with version 1.0.0, 1.0.1 and Git
> > versions.
> >
> > By the way, the lspci output:
> >
> > 02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
> > 88E8055 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller [11ab:4363] (rev 12)
> >
> > --
> > Gilles
> >
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